(1)

The Commission must designate the Member State intervention centres which meet the minimum standards set in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009 of 24 July 2009 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards public intervention by invitation to tender for the purchase of durum wheat or paddy rice ( 2 ).

(2)

In accordance with Article 23(1) of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009, the Member States have sent the Commission a list of intervention centres for actual designation and a list of the storage premises attached to those centres which they have approved as fulfilling the minimum standards required by Community legislation.

(3)

In order to ensure that the public intervention scheme works efficiently, the Commission should designate intervention centres on the basis of their geographical situation and publish a list of the storage premises attached thereto, together with all the information required by the operators involved in public intervention.

(4)

Given the frequent changes which may occur in this connection, and in the interests of sound intervention management, the Commission should make a constant update of this information available to users and provide for the details of the list of storage premises, first, to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union (C Series) and, subsequently, to be updated in accordance with Article 23(3) of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009 by all appropriate technical means via the information systems put in place by the Commission, including publication on the Internet.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,